James Lorimer & Company Ltd. has been publishing non-fiction books on Canadian social and political issues since the early 1970s, with an attention to subjects that were being silenced in public discussions. Some of the company’s first books included a groundbreaking report from First Nations reserves across Canada by a renowned journalist, and several others that challenged the destructive policies of city politicians and city planners working with land developers that were destroying downtowns and neighborhoods. Lorimer still publishes under this mandate today, and has expanded to subjects including military history, economics, education, gender studies, history, native studies, political science, public policy, sociology, and urban studies written by experts but with an appeal to the general reader.
Far from an accident of history, the First World War was a long sought-after event welcomed by European elites as a check against democratization and socialist reforms but the war had far-reaching and unexpected consequences.
The British Navy's show of force at the time of Confederation
by Cheryl MacDonald
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781459411227
Pub Date: 2017-08-15
Format: Paperback
Imprint: Lorimer
192 Pages
This book tells the story of three British gunboats that patrolled the Great lakes in the aftermath of the US Civil War when Canada was negotiating Confederation and under Fenian attack. Cheryl MacDonald explores the impact of Fenian invasions on Canada and how the presence of the gunboats helped guarantee Canadian sovereignty.
A revisionist historian offers a refreshing but challenging account of the Second World War, what caused it, why it unfolded as it did, and who emerged the real victor.
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James Lorimer & Company Ltd. has been publishing non-fiction books on Canadian social and political issues since the early 1970s, with an attention to subjects that were being silenced in public discussions. Some of the company’s first books included a groundbreaking report from First Nations reserves across Canada by a renowned journalist, and several others that challenged the destructive policies of city politicians and city planners working with land developers that were destroying downtowns and neighborhoods. Lorimer still publishes under this mandate today, and has expanded to subjects including military history, economics, education, gender studies, history, native studies, political science, public policy, sociology, and urban studies written by experts but with an appeal to the general reader. 
